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If mother works from home, father shirks his responsibilities, NYC, 1913
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Making puffs/switches/rats for hair in the dual purpose kitchen/living room, NYC, 1912
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Mother and daughter work on embroidery piecework, Upper East Side, NYC, February 1912
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Woman works on piecework, making willow plumes, NYC, February 29, 1912
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A tenement family making artificial flowers, earning 40 cents a day (the equivalent of $9.64 a day today) for their collective work, NYC, 1912
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Mother and father and three children, unable to sleep because of the heat wave that has enveloped New York, take refuge on the beach at Coney Island. Hundreds of tenement dwellers in many cities are unable to sleep because of the intense heat.
August 28, 1922
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Tenement “yard”, NYC ca. 1900
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Yard of tenements at Park Ave. and 107th Street, New York, ca. 1900
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Monday washing, tenement yard, NYC, ca. 1900
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Jacob A Riis, How the Other Half Lives, ca. 1890
Tenement district of Brockton, Mass. December, 1940
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A Man in His Tenement, Jacob Riis, 1890
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Poverty stricken family in New York’s Lower East Side, Jacob Riis, ca. 1888
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Lower East Side Tailor Shop, Jacob Riis, ca. 1890
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Peddler in a cellar atop a makeshift bed consisting of two barrels and a plank of wood, Jacob A Riis, 1890